So where was Reagan in all this, playing hop scotch?

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Originally Posted by goldorak

He was at the right place at the right time and he enjoyed the show.
If another guy were president of the United States at the time, the Soviet System would still have collapsed. It ran literally out of fuel with or without and kind of american ingerence, and the deck of cards came crumbling one on top of the other. The problems of the Soviet System didn't begin and end with the Reagan administration. From an historic point of view you have to see the big picture.
Reagan had a great rhetoric, and he was lucky to be president during the last days of communism and to witness its downfall.

Actually George H. W. Bush was president when the wall came down, and when the Soviet Union collapsed.